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Friday, September 23, 2011

Custom Cushions--my first real sewing project.

Warning--this is NOT a tutorial. Please, I barely got through this myself! It's very doubtful I could teach it....

So here's the thing about me--I'm not great at saying no. Especially to friends. Especially to friends that help me out all the time. So when Amanda asked me if I could make some cushions for the salon's two pedicure chairs, I immediately said yes, sure, of course. Of course I can make custom cushions that require a real sewing machine, the basic knowhow to operate said real sewing machine, multiple trips to the fabric store, self confidence, and well, hours of my time doing something I know nothing about. WAAHHHH!!!!

But whatevs, Imma survivor, I'm not gon give up!

So, I went to the fabric store and searched for the prefect fabric to match her super awesome pedicure bowls:

Amanda picked my favorite fabric of the 4 (we're so in sync!), the bottom left one.

Now, here is where I MUST give the sweet lady at Field's Fabric a little shout out: Sweet Lady, thank you for saving my ASS! I took in the foam cushions and told her about my project. She straight up took out a piece of paper and made cuts to show me how to work the corners. Seriously, without her, I would have wrapped these Bs like a present! I used that 3 inch diagram like my life was dependent on it the entire time.

Bacon loved the fabric too! He's such a helper :)

GO MICHIGAN STATE!

The cushions needed to be 28x18 and 4 inches high. The closest I could come was 22x22 at 4 inches high. So meant cutting and pasting these guys:

picked up at hobbit lobbit

Next I just cut, placed and measured the best I could. Again--NOT a tutorial!

Man, I love this fabric!

Well, my easy bake oven sewing machine broke in the middle of my nervous breakdown the project so I borrowed my friend Lila's. All I can say is WOW, it's all about the machine! Once I had a "good" machine, I literally flew through the last cushion (then went back and fixed the first one). It just goes to show you that an extra $20 on a machine goes a LONG WAY. I bought my own big girl Brother machine the other day and it's been such a great experience!

Without further ramblings ado, here are the new cushions!

the other one looks exactly the same--that's why you're only getting this one photo.

I guess that the other moral of the story would be that I'm glad that I took on the project--it always good to push yourself! I'm no longer afraid to try sewing now--cause technically, I already did! :)

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